we are a low word count, any level of experience rp set in harry's 3rd year at hogwarts. students and adults alike are welcome! given we are set fairly early in the series, everything that happens from this point on will be up to us! perhaps sirius black will be cleared and peter arrested, or perhaps something darker lurks in the shadows...
✔ cherry ✔ 12.5 inches ✔ Dragon Heart String Zeke's wand is rather unremarkable, it's only notable quality being that it's made of the same wood as his broomstick
✘ Ravenclaw
The hat spoke of Zeke's mother who had been in Hufflepuff and talked about how had his father been a wizard he surely would have had the determination to be a Slytherin... but Zeke was his person and the house saw the traits he needed of a RAVENCLAWWWW!
//family
//Magical Persona
✔ JACOB MAXWELL, Father, 40s, Muggle, Former professional football player ✔ ANGELA MAXWELL, Mother, 40s, Half Blood, Stay at home mother ✔ Barbie, Broom, 2 years old, Nimbus 2001 custom made and crafted for Zeke
✘ patronus - Zeke has never even come close to casting a patronus as he is awful with charms...and potions... really with anything magic that's not related to flying. However, if Zeke were to cast a patronus it would certainly be a Ram, as it represents strength and inner drive, a creature that while not known for its intelligence is actually deceptively smart. ✘ boggart - Zeke's boggart would certainly turn into a test, as Zeke is actually terrible at magic, and his house selection of Ravenclaw means that he is surrounded by highly intelligent witches and wizards forcing Zeke to feel even more like the "dumb jock" ✘ mirror of erised - Zeke being hoisted up after winning the Quidditch World Cup as Team Captain, his father being a former professional athlete had been training Zeke since he was a small child to be an elite level chaser, and while Zeke secretly desires to play beater, he knows the glory of being lead chaser would make his Dad prouder
//personality
//positives
//negatives
✔ Supremely Athletic ✔ Excellent on a broom ✔ Incredibly Charming ✔ Extremely Devoted ✔ Overly caring of others feelings
✘ Really bad at charms... like... really really bad ✘ Might be worse at potions ✘ So bad at herbology that the Womping willow fears him.
✘ Doubts his house placement, which causes him to not ask for help when he should. ✘ Questions whether people try to be his friend because they like him or if it's just because he's good at quidditch, this prevents him from truly opening up and making real friends
//likes
//dislikes
✔ Quidditch ✔ Ballycastle Bats! ✔ Broomsticks
✘ Classes ✘ Failure ✘ Bananas... because they're mushy and gross.
//background
Zeke Maxwell was born to a split Wizarding family, his Mum was a very talented witch that, Rumor has it , drafted a love potion that she gave to Jake Maxwell, a star forward for the Irish national team. The two fell in love regardless of it was done via magic or natural means and had their only child, Zeke. Jake began grooming Zeke to be a quidditch star by the time Zeke was 3, tossing a quaffle in the living room with him. Zeke was on a broom by 6, and running quidditch drills by 8. Zeke's life has primarily revolved around quidditch because of this, until Hogwarts he had been homeschooled to ensure he had more time with his coaches.
Zeke was shocked to be selected into Ravenclaw and was slightly stunned as he had assumed the hat would place him in a house like Slytherin that was traditionally better in quidditch. His father had gone so far as to protest to Dumbledore to have him re-sorted into either Gryffindor or Slytherin as being on Ravenclaw would "stunt his development" but Dumbledore stood by the sorting hat. Zeke fell behind academically almost immediately as he compared himself to his peers who spent countless hours studying and reading books while Zeke was watching quidditch matches and studying the strategies of the best teams.
Zeke scored poorly on his OWLS but somehow managed to barely pass them. His classes are not advanced by any means but he stays dedicated and attends all of his classes and puts in effort with his homework but still barely manages to skate by. His academic struggles have led him to question his sorting, making him feel as if he should have been in another house as he obviously lacks the intelligence of a true Ravenclaw as he fails to see that the intelligence the sorting hat saw is used on the quidditch pitch where he has the ability to think 3 moves ahead of every other player.
